Deacon Jones Quotes

You're sacking them, you're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.

Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

All men are created equal. After that, it's up to you.

And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

You'll find your life greatly simplified if you only worry about stuff you can fix.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

Know the difference between famous and great.

When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.